Brazil’s rivers link distant geographies, meaning activities in one region can have big impacts downstream.
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Environmental Education on the Brazilian Savannah
In the world’s most biologically-rich savannah grassland, we recently held a workshop to help local teachers pass on knowledge about this threatened ecosystem with their students.
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Brazilian State Aims to Restore Ecosystems on Agricultural Lands
Brazil’s Forest Code has been a controversial discussion topic lately; revision of this law could clear the way for massive
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Seeing Home Through a Different Lens
“Cerrado [the Brazilian savannah] is my home. Cerrado is my life. Here I live. Here I work”. The words of
Cerrado Project Update: Voices from the Field
While Fernando and Artur were planting trees on a farm in Mineiros (see last Thursday’s blog post), I spent a
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Tree Planting in the Cerrado
Today was the third day of our team’s visit to the Emas-Taquari carbon project in Mineiros, Brazil, which CI-Brazil is
In the Field: Reforesting the Brazilian Savanna
We are on our way to the city of Mineiros, in the Brazilian state of Goiás, where CI-Brazil is implementing
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